The high-level programming language was created to eliminate machine dependency. Languages such as COBOL, FORTRAN, BASIC and C were designed to run on many different computers.

The paper says the C++ standards committee WG21 supports the idea that changes for safety need to be adopted not just in tooling -- where it has done more work in the past -- but also to be ...

Powerful, flexible, complex: The origins of C++ date back 40 years, yet it remains one of the most widely used programming languages today. TechRepublic spoke to C++ creator, Bjarne Stroustrup, to ...

But C++'s future is looking a lot brighter. Standards will be updated sooner, with the next major release scheduled for 2017, and a minor release in 2014. The C++ working group has created a ...

Forthcoming update of C++ will include a standard library module named std. Attention of the ISO C++ Committee now turns to C++ 26. C++ 23, a planned upgrade to the popular programming language ...